Richard Widows – The Permaculture Research Institute

As anyone who read my post from earlier this year titled ‘Rehydrating the Earth: A New Paradigm for Water Management’ will be aware, the issue of global water management has been a topic of g...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/09/03/new-water-paradigm-case-study-just-add-water/

As Albert Einstein famously said – “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” In my opinion, there is no area where this statement holds mo...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/04/28/the-complexity-of-reductionism-a-case-study-of-genetic-engineering/

This article was first published in the Holistic Science Journal Vol 2 Issue 4. To view the journal click here www.holisticsciencejournal.co.uk. The wars of the 21st century will be wars fought o...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/04/13/rehydrating-the-earth-a-new-paradigm-for-water-management/

by Richard Widows I don’t think I could provide anyone with a better example of the madness and hypocrisy that plagues the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) debate, than what is currently hap...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2012/08/21/gmos-its-people-vs-power-on-proposition-37/

by Richard Widows We are in the early stages of a global food crisis, the likes of which has never previously been seen. Nearly 1 billion people (or 1 in 7) experience chronic hunger and another ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2012/08/08/why-australia-needs-a-peoples-food-plan/

by Richard Widows The recent announcement that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have donated close to US$10 million to research what has been termed as ‘fertilizer free’ grain crops, whi...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2012/07/27/bill-gates-should-forget-gm-crops-and-focus-on-solutions-that-work/